《现代美国英语高级听力教程》是为我国大学英语专业高年级学生准备的高级听力教程，供三年级学生使用。同时，本书还可以作为高等院校其他专业研究生以及已经具有良好听力基础的其他各类人员的英语听力培训教材。

该教程具有极其广阔的历史视野，异常丰富的人文知识，纯正标准的美国英语，精心设计的训练项目等特点。

Unit 1

Part A Significant Events 

 1. Magna Carta 

 2. China's First Agricultural Revolution 

 3. The Renaissance

 4. The Industrial Revolution 

 5. Women Suffrage Movements

Part B Marvelous Inventions (1) 

 6. Clock and Timekeeping 

 7. The Chronometer 

 8. Invention of the Steam Locomotive

 9. Invention of the Phonograph

Part C Delightful Moment 

 10. Minnie Had a Little Lamb

Unit 2

Part A Great Books 

 1 1. Dante's Divine Comedy 

 12. Ihn Khaldun's World History 

 13. The Canterbury Tales 

 14. TheKingJamesBible 

 15. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Part B Epoch-Making Discoveries 

 16. Columbus Discovered America 

 17. The Discovery of Blood Circulation

 18. Oil! 

 19. The Discovery of Penicillin

Part C Delightful Moment 

 20. Lonesome Valley

Unit 3

Part A Disasters and Calamities 

 21. Black Death 

 22. Irish Potato Famine 

 23. The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

 24. The Great Depression 

 25. Holocaust

Part B Scientific Giants ( 1 ) 

 26. Copernicus and Galileo 

 27. Charles Darwin 

 28. Mendeleevand the Periodic Table of Elements 

 29. Robert Goddard: Rocket Pioneer

Part C Delightful Moment 

 30 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Unit 4

PartA Music 

 3l. The Piano 

 32. Orchestra 

 33. Mozart 

 34. The Waltz King

 35. Blues Music

Part B Scientific Giants (2) 

 36. Alfred Nobel: From Dynamite to Peace

 37. Gregor Mendel Discovers Plant Genetics

 38. Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park 

 39. Einstein

Part C Delightful Moment 

 40. One Day When We Were Young

Part B The French Influence 

 46. Voltaire 

 47. Jean Jacques Rousseau 

 48. French Revolution

 49. Napoleonic Wars

Part C Delightful Moment 

 50.1 Love Paris

Unit 6

Part A Titanic Explorations 

 51. Marco Poio 

 52. European Explorers 

 53. Lewis and Clark Expedition

 54. North and South Poles 

 55. Conquering Mt. Everest's Summit

Part B Milestones in Medicine (1) 

 56 Germ Theory of Disease 

 57 Quinine 

 58 Blood Transfusions

 59 Polio Vaccination

Part C Delightful Moment 

 60 Climb Every Mountain

Unit 7

PartA Arts 

 61. Baroque 

 62 Opera 

 63 Romanticism 

 64 Ballet 

 65 Impressionism

Part B Marvelous Inventions (2) 

 66. Chinese Use of Explosives 

 67. The Microscope 

 68. Steamboat 

 69. Marconi:Wonders of Wireless

Part C Delightful Moment 

 70. Must the Winter Come So Soon?

Unit 8

Part A Religious Conflicts

 71. Christian Church Schism of 1054 

 72. The Crusades 

 73. The Inquisition

 74. Spreadoflslam 

 75. Birth of the State oflsrael

Part B ArchitecturalWonders 

 76. Gothic Cathedrals 

 77. Taj Mahal 

 78. The Library of Congress

 79. The First Skyscraper

Part C Delightful Moment 

 80. A Heart in New York

Unit 9

Part A Wars 

 81. Battle of Trafalgar and Pax Brittanica 

 82. Opium Wars 

 83. Spanish-American War

 84. The First World War 

 85, The Second World War

Part B Prominent Leaders 

 86. Peter the Great 

 87. Bismarck and the Unification of Germany 

 88. F, D. R.

 89. Life and Work of Winston Churchill

Part C Delightful Moment 

 90. Pearl Harbor Blues

Unit 10

Part A Su preme Masters of Art 

 91. Michelangelo 

 92. Shakespeare 

 93. Goethe 

 94. Picasso 

 95. Brancusi

Part B The American Impact ( 1 ) 

 96. The Declaration of Independence 

 97. Emancipation Proclamation 

 98. Battle of

 Gettysburg and Its Implications 

 99. Huckleberry Finn

Part C Delightful Moment 

 100. Tell My Father

Unit 11

Part A Imperialism and Nationalism 

 101. Age of European Imperialism 

 102. The Liberator: Sim6n Bolivar

 103. Waning of European Imperialism 

 104. Mohandas Gandhi 

 105. Nationalism

Part B Milestones in Medicine (2) 

 106. Ether 

 107. Antiseptic Surgery 

 108. X-Rays 

 109. Kidney Dialysis

Part C Delightful Moment 

 110.55 Days at Peking

Unit 12

Part A World-Famous Writers 

 111. Jane Austen 

 112. Charles Dickens 

 113. Leo Tolstoy 

 114. Ernest Hemingway

 115. Jorge Luis Borges

Part B The British Heritage 

 116. William the Conqueror

 117. Henry VIII and the Church

 118. Florence Nightingale 

 119. The History of Soccer

Part C Delightful Moment 

 120. An Englishman in New York

Unit 13

Part A Historical Lessons 

 121. Closing China 

 122. Expulsion of Jews from Iberia 

 123. Perry Opens Japan

 124. Slavery Comes to Colonial America 

 125. Indian Pacification

Part B Environment Protection 

 126. Extinction of the Dodo Bird 

 127. John Muir 

 128. Silent Spring

 129. Extinction Protection Laws in US

Part C Delightful Moment

 130. Bye-bye. Dodo

Unit 14

Part A Advances in Science & Technology 

 131. Discovery of the DNA Molecule 

 132. The Green Revolution 

 133. Agricultural Biotechnology 

 134. Laser Surgery 

 t35. Mapping of the Human Genome

Part B The American Impact (2) 

 136. New World Crops 

 137. Henry Ford and Mass Production 

 138. Motion Pictures

 139. Broadway Musical

Part C Delightful Moment 

 140. America

Unit 15

Part A Miracles of the 20th Century 

 141. Television 

 142. The First Electronic Computer 

 143. Sputnik

 144. Moon Landing 

 145. lnternet

Part B Education and Sports 

 146. Universities 

 147. Harvard University 

 148. Basketball

 149. Modern Olympic Movement

Part C Delightful Moment 

 150. Twentieth Century